Graduated with a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering from the UK. Waddah is considered one of the authorities on Governance and Leadership and High Reliability Organisations (HROs). He is the Hon. Chairman for the Energy Institute – Middle East and is also the Chairman of the Platform for Connected Leadership (PCL), Dubai, UAE. He is currently appointed to a new function as the Senior Director for Logistics and Marine Assurance and served in the very recent past as Senior Director for Sustainability, Operational and Business Excellence for the ENOC Group in Dubai, UAE and overseas all the Sustainability, CSR, Energy and Resource Management and reporting as well as Business and Operational Excellence, Innovation and Process Improvement and LSS projects with the Group.

Waddah holds several academic and vocational qualifications including two PG Diplomas an MSc in Environmental Sciences, an Executive MBA and a Doctorate from the University of Bradford in Governance and Leadership. He has received several awards in his career, most notably, the Rashid Prize for Scholarship Excellence in 2007 (Dubai), and the IEMA Sustainability Leader of the Year (UK) in 2019.

He delivers various lectures in technical, on learning and in leadership and governance at universities, conferences and within organisations. He is a visiting lecturer on the MSc program at the University of Technologi Petronas (UTP) in Malaysia and appointed as an external examiner for PhD defence exams at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) in India. He is an advisor on the Herriot Watt University’s Industry Advisory Committee.

He serves on several international boards (OCIMF, Energy Institute etc) and served as Vice Chairman of Dubai Carbon (DCCE PJSC) from 2010-2019; he has served as a Board Member of the not-for-profit Emirates Environment Group in the UAE. He is also the senior advisor to the Board of the Clean Energy Business Council. He also represents the UAE in the International Standards Organisation (ISO) Technical Committee 283, is Chairman of the UAE National Committee for Health and Safety as well as the Professional Engineering Chapter of the UAE Society of Engineers. He is the Hon. Chairman of the Energy Institute – Middle East.

His publications include various research, practitioner journal and conference papers in addition to 8 internationally published books mainly is Safety Management, Operational Excellence, Reflective Learning, HSE Practitioner Executive Development, Governance and Leadership as well as theology. I book is currently under development in Governance and Leadership in Health and Safety. 

He was born and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.